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The apex representative body of the garment owners has urged the government to enforce the single-digit lending rate from today (Wednesday) instead of April 01 next. The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers...
The country's readymade garment (RMG) sector went through ups and downs last year, prompting industry insiders to seek immediate policy support to tackle the challenges still ahead of them. Although...
Light engineering goods will be declared as 'the product of the year' for 2020 aiming to help the sector grow further, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi said on Tuesday. "Prime Minister...
The operating profits of the country's private commercial banks (PCBs) witnessed a 'slower growth' in the outgoing calendar year (2019) because of a rising trend in classified loans in the...
Those of the Bangladeshi workers who have failed to seize the opportunity of the 'Back for Good' (B4G) programme are concerned as the Malaysian authorities are set to launch a...
Protesters angry about US air strikes on Iraq hurled stones and torched a security post at the US Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday, setting off a confrontation with guards and...
A government body has suggested appointing 'tax detectives' in Bangladesh missions abroad, updating the double-taxation deal with Switzerland and exchanging views with the countries where most of the laundered money...
The nation is bidding farewell to the outgoing year 2019 forgetting all odds and sorrows of the past and welcoming 2020 with new hopes through different programmes. Jubilant people, particularly...
A new normal in recent years is: There is barely any impact of people's demonstrations on those who matter in policymaking. Once individuals have been extremely restless, thanks to faster...
Among the many financial crimes, common to financial regimes across the globe, the one that tears through the economic vertebrae of most countries, especially developing countries, is no doubt capital...
Called Angel Number -- one that acts as a guardian angel, 2020 symbolises faith and trust in relationships. By extension the number is also significant for love and compassion. So...
South Korean prosecutors on Tuesday indicted a key ally of President Moon Jae-in on a dozen charges including bribery as they concluded a monthslong probe into a political scandal that...
SYLHET, Dec 31: Misuse of public funds by some officials at the Project Implementation Office at Shulla upazila in Sunamganj in the name of construction of bridges at remote villages...
In its December 18, 2019 report, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) claimed that the overall poverty rate dropped1.3 per cent to 20.5 per cent in the Fiscal Year 2018-19 compared...
We are at the end of a decade that has no name. The 2010s cannot really talk about itself, and this confusion is only partly born of semantics. While the...
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been one of the major driving forces of growth, industrialisation, economic diversification and structural transformation for many countries. For this reason, most of the industrial...
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, the founder of BRAC, world's largest non-governmental organization (NGO), passed away in the evening of December 22 at a hospital in Dhaka. His death marked the...
Dozens of Iraqi protesters broke into the US embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday, smashing a main door and setting fire to a reception area, prompting tear gas and sounds...
Alongside an increase in incidents of rape, the country saw 388 cases of extrajudicial killings in the year of 2019, said a new report on Tuesday. The annual report prepared...
The number of reported rape incidents has nearly doubled to 1,413 in 2019, according to the Ain O Salish Kendro (ASK). A total of 388 people have been subjected to...
The Biman Bangladesh Airlines earned profit of Taka 2.18 billion in the fiscal year 2018-2019. The information was revealed during Biman’s 12th Annual General Meeting (AGM), held at its headquarters...
Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany are "extremely pessimistic" about the country's overall economic situation in 2020, showed a survey published by the German Association for Small and Medium-sized...
The government is set to procure marine vessels for the Mongla Port in a bid to properly handle the growing number of ocean going ships. The approval for the Tk...
After signing the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2020 on December 20, US President Donald Trump announced the establishment of the US Space Force, the sixth military...
The High Court on Tuesday questioned the legality of a controversial clause of a Bangladesh Bank recruitment circular issued on December 1, 2019, to appoint officers in 188 posts of...
Education Minister Dipu Moni has urged everyone to assist the government in ensuring the students nurture their merit rather than celebrating GPA-5 in public exams. She also hoped the results...
Approximately 8,093 babies will be born in Bangladesh on the first day of new year, 2020, according to UNICEF. Bangladeshi babies will account for 2.06 per cent of the estimated...
Khulna Civil Surgeon office has completed all preparations to immunise over 271,000 children, aged between six months and 59 months, with Vitamin A plus capsules during the National Vitamin A...
Almost half of the much-hyped Padma Bridge has become visible after installation of the 20th span. The 3,600-tonne 3-F span was installed at 1:00 pm on Tuesday on pillar no...
The Indian High Commission in Dhaka issued 1.5 million visas to Bangladesh nationals in 2019, the highest for any single country, reports bdnews24.com. The high commission has celebrated the milestone...
Cumilla Medical College Hospital (CMCH) is unable to provide necessary medical services to its patients for lack of manpower and equipment, causing sufferings to low-income people who largely depend on...
Girls performed better than boys in this year’s Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations. The pass rate of female students is 88.64 per cent while that...
At least 17 people have been killed by the extreme air pollution in Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan, over the past one week, an official with the Public Health...
India's capital Delhi has recorded its chilliest day in more than a century amid a severe cold wave across the northern part of the country. Thick fog blanketed the city...
The prime minister of Mongolia Ukhnaa Khurelsukh said the country’s economy grew around 7.3 per cent year on year in 2019, compared to 1.2 per cent in 2016. The Prime...
Brazilian financial analysts elevated projections for the growth of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2020 from 2.28 to 2.30 per cent, the Central Bank announced on Monday. According...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has announced the appointment of Zainab Hawa Bangura of Sierra Leone as director-general of the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON). "Bangura, a relentless advocate for...
The 324th Board Meeting (special) of Standard Bank Ltd was held on 30 December at SBL Board Room, Head Office, Dhaka. Chairman of the Board of Directors Mr Kazi Akram...
Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Riva Ganguly Das on Tuesday expressed satisfaction over growing people-to-people contact between Bangladesh and India noting issuance of record 1.5 million (15 lakh) visas to...
A total of 54 prisoners died in different jails across the country during the January-November period of this outgoing year, according to an independent rights body. The report of Ain...
Workers of nine state-owned jute mills in Khulna and Jashore continued their fast-unto-death for the third consecutive day on Tuesday. They are trying to force the government to accept their...
The pass rate in Primary Education Completion (PEC) and Ebtedayee exams have declined to 95.5 per cent and 95.96 per cent respectively. In the PEC exams, 326,088 students have secured...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has stressed the need for giving the students a modern technology-based education to make them prepared to face the ever-changing trends of the era. “We want...
South Bangla Agriculture & Commerce (SBAC) Bank Ltd opened its 81st Branch at Benapole of Jashore on Sunday. Motiur Rahman, Sponsor Shareholder of the Bank, inaugurated the branch as...
National Bank Limited inaugurated its 207th branch at Mawa, 208th branch at Aganagar and 209th branch at Naudoba on December 29. Director & Chairperson of the Executive Committee of the...
An MoU has been signed between Trust Bank Limited and Ace Autos (Pvt.) Limited under which Trust Bank clients and employees will get attractive discount on purchase and maintenance of...
Violence against women and children, specially the incidents of rape and murder, witnessed an alarming rise across the country in the first eleven months of the current calendar year, according...
Time has come to say goodbye to another year on the Gregorian calendar and welcome a new one. 2019 was a very eventful year that left behind so many challenges...
Rain is likely to occur across the country, including the capital, on Thursday and Friday, said Bangladesh Meteorological Department on Tuesday. “Rain is likely to occur in Dhaka and other...
The pass rate has risen 2.07 percentage points to 87.9 per cent in Junior School Certificate and Junior Dakhil Certificate exams year-on-year. As many as 78,429 students achieved GPA-5, according...
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